Turning pistols into piccolos sounds like the kind of hippie dream that died out with flared trousers. But a group of UK musicians is doing just that, taking the theatre of war and giving it its own orchestra pit.

You might have thought Simon Cowell had rooted out enough talent from the bedrooms of Britain with his hit shows The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. But in his never-ending quest for the Next Big Thing, the pop impresario is launching a new "global audition", this time through the medium of YouTube.

It's two years since that interview, and now the 'Agenda' host has two feature films in the offing

Mystery deepens over work that disappeared from Poundland wall

Jeremy Paxman and others at Newsnight had voiced fears before the Jimmy Savile farrago

A new play about a First World War hero strengthens the campaign to award him a Military Cross

No subject seems taboo for increasingly edgy television comedies – except perhaps the Holocaust

Company's reputation hit by poor sales, child labour and bigger screens

The supermarkets' drive to reduce overheads could lie behind the latest meat contamination scare

BBC was first out of the blocks in the race to wake us up with Lycra-loving fitness gurus, chirpy astrologers and unruly animals